Karen Webster from PYMNTS.COM recently interviewed Anil Malhotra, SVP of Marketing and Co-founder of Bango. Listen to their discussion on this podcast around mobile payments, how mobile app developers can make money from their mobile apps and the findings from the recently published Bango white paper. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn about: The best [...]
The idea of creating a channel to market across a large and unified customer base is clearly attractive. The operator-backed Wholesale Application Community is an attempt to achieve this, according to the media read-out, to “rebalance” the domination of Google and Apple in app delivery. WAC appears to have started off on the right lines, [...]
This was the thinking behind Touchnote’s innovative mobile application, which allows people to create and mail cards using their mobiles, from anywhere in the world. The application launched in 2009 after Raam Tahkar, CEO of Touchnote, realized there was a gap in the market and uses in-app billing to charge their customers. In a recent [...]
…at least five evidently – and you’re right it’s not funny, especially if you are a mobile app developer trying to build and maintain apps for the growing smartphone market. Google recently revealed high levels of fragmentation in their Android platform and has now announced their own Nexus One handset that uses yet another version [...]
Selling your mobile app could not be simpler, you just send it over to your favourite App Store and it gets published to millions of eager consumers – it’s all part of the App Stores 30% revenue share. They take care of all the complex stuff such as secure app delivery and rights management etc. [...]
It comes as no surprise that Nokia will not have operator billing when it launches its Ovi App Store next month to a potential market of 50 million users on 25 devices (read the story in The Washington Post). Nokia had originally said that it would offer operator billing in nine countries including the US. [...]
Yesterday Research In Motion launched its BlackBerry App World, in response to Apple’s App Store and expects approximately 1,000 applications to be posted on the store this week, including applications from the New York Times, Shazam, Bloomberg, Gameloft, Lonely Planet and MTV. But with strong price competition amongst the Apple App Store’s 25,000 apps, doubts [...]
App Stores for mobile phones do seem to be flavor of the month, judging by the announcements at Mobile World Congress this month. Along came Apple and launched a highly successful iPhone App Store and now nearly all the major handset vendors – Nokia, RIM, Google to name a few – have or are jumping [...]
